Updates from Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, & Bangladesh

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2008:

 

 

Updates from Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, & Bangladesh

 

A female suicide bomber killed 69 people and wounded 140 at

the al-Ghazl pet market in Baghdad on February 1, 2008--the fifth

attack on the market since June 2006. Half an hour later, a second

female suicide bomber killed 29 people and wounded 67 at the New

Baghdad pet market. Four of the al-Ghazl attacks appear to have been

the work of al-Qaida. A November 2007 attack was attributed to

Shiites, who feigned an al-Qaida attack to increase public support

for Shiite militias.

 

Assadullah Khalid, governor of Kandahar, Afghanistan,

attributed to the Taliban a February 17, 2008 bombing that killed at

least 80 spectators at a dogfight and wounded 90 more. The Taliban

suppressed dogfighting, but it has regained popularity since the

U.S. ended Taliban rule in late 2001.

 

" Jewish settlers and Israeli and Palestinian activists have

joined forces " to try to prevent Israel from building a barrier that

will separate wildlife from water, Associated Press writer Laurie

Copans reported on March 2, 2008. " In the Wadi Fukin area of the

central West Bank, " Copans wrote, " the Israeli-Palestinian branch

of Friends of the Earth has persuaded Israel's Supreme Court to halt

work on the barrier, arguing that natural springs would be

destroyed. " The campaign is supported on the Palestinian side by the

Palestine Wildlife Society.

 

" A five-member team of media persons from Kerala on a recent

visit noticed the absence of stray dogs in Aizawl, " in Mizoram

state, India, The Hindu reported on December 19, 2007, noting

that dogs are eaten in Mizoram. On January 13, 2008, the Daily

Telegraph reported, " a rampaging army of rats " had produced " fear of

famine " in Mizoram. Stimulating the rats was a once-in-50-years

bamboo forest flowering. The lack of dogs was by February 8 felt in

nearby parts of Bangladesh, as well, where rats " destroyed the

crops of tens of thousands of people " said BBC News correspondent

Mark Dummett. Dogs are rarely eaten in Bangladesh, but are

persecuted as allegedly unclean, and may be covertly exported for

consumption.

 

 

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